Agricultural Policy and Land Use
2009-2010: Preparing the 18th EEAC Annual Conference with
a statement on Sustainable Land Use
Acting Coordinator: Jan Verheeke, Secretary General
a.i., Environment
and Nature Council of Flanders (SAR Minaraad)
Working plan 2010
The main activity of the WG is to prepare the EEAC Statement 2010 on Sustainable
Land Use.
- a three step process is envisioned: framing and first draft, involving
stakeholders, in particular users of land, finalising a statement;
- February 2010: for the WG's first meeting, the kick-off paper to settle the scope of the
statement is ready and under discussion. The WGs Biodiversity
and SD will be invited to this meeting;
- April-May 2010: the member councils will be consulted on the
content of the statement.
2009: Land Use and the Global Economy
Chair: Huib Silvis, Council Member, Netherlands Council for the Rural
Areas (RLG) Coordinator: Agneta Andersson (RLG)
Main Outcome 2009
In 2009 the Working group Agriculture (WG Agri)
covered the broad subject of land use. On the work programme was the organisation
of a workshop on Land Use and the Global Economy, with discussions on the impact
of the recent financial developments and the relation to the EU Sustainable
Development Strategy (priority field Conservation and Management of Natural
Resources). The WG
Biodiversity together with ENCA contributed to the event .
- On 30 January, the WG had a preparatory WG meeting in Brussels. The
meeting focused on preparing for the seminar on 'Land Use and Global
Economy' on 5 June, at Scotland House, in Brussels. The Strategic objective
of the seminar was described as: looking at land use as a unifying concept
and call for integrated policy and governance for land use on different
geographical levels from global to local. The discussion also pointed at the
need for management and unifying concepts to analyse land use at the
landscape level. The group found it important to describe the global economy
and financial crisis as a system crisis that highlights the dilemmas between
regulation versus markets. A suggested result of the seminar was to
formulate questions for the policy process and to function as a preparation
of the Annual Conference in 2010. On the programme, the WG decided to start
with a global perspective on the topic, followed by a theoretical approach
on how to look at land use at a landscape level followed by some case-studies.
It was suggested that the afternoon would contain the ecological aspects, the governance aspects, and
the SD-perspective.
- On 5 June, the WG held the Seminar on Land Use and Global
Economy, at Scotland House, in Brussels. The seminar
gave a global perspective on the topic, a theoretical approach on how
to look at land use at a landscape level as input for the SD-policy process
(EU, but also global and local). The outcome of the seminar will
hopefully contribute to the EU SDS-review and will provide input for the theme of the EEAC Annual
Conference 2010 on Sustainable Land use.
Following to the seminar held on 5 June, the WG summarized its results in the
report "Land use in an Era of Global Change" .
Download
the theme information
on the Seminar
Download
the report "Land use in an Era of Global Change" (pdf. 5,27 MB)
For the main outcomes of the past years, please continue
reading the archived pages